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Olive Ridley hatching begins

By Our Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR APRIL 26. Thousands of baby Olive Ridley sea turtles crawled to the Bay of Bengal, as mass hatching began at the Rusikulya beach, on the Orissa coast, late on Friday evening.

An estimated two lakh Olive Ridleys had laid eggs on this beach between March 9 and 13. The hatching is expected to continue for another four or five days, according to Biswajit Mohanty of `Operation Kachhapa'.

The volunteers of the Operation Kachhapa and the Forest Department guards were at hand to protect the eggs from predators such as dogs and jackals. A large number of eggs were lost in the sea due to beach erosion in the past few weeks.

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